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In HTTP header, the brower passes to server any cookies that are valid for a given page
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Note only name=value is passed since PATH, DOMAIN, SECURE, and EXPIRES are used to check if cookie should be passed
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The server stores cookie strings in $HTTP_COOKIE environment variable as name1=value1; name2=value2;
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A simple CGI script can decode this environment variable
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One can send cookies back to client using
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Set-cookie: name1=value1; EXPIRES=...; ...
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before the
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content-type: text/html
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header line
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